Genesis 21:1-16 ▼

1 The Lord visited Sara as he had promised, and did vnto her accordyng as he had spoke.

2 For Sara conceaued, and bare Abraham a sonne in his olde age, euen the same season whiche the Lorde had appoynted.

3 And Abraham called his sonnes name that was borne vnto him, whiche Sara bare hym, Isahac.

4 And Abraham circumcised his sonne Isahac, when he was eyght dayes olde, as God commaunded him.

5 And Abraham was an hundreth yere olde, when his sonne Isahac was borne vnto him.

6 But Sara sayde: God hath made me to reioyce, so that all that heare, wyll ioy with me.

7 She sayd also: who would haue sayde vnto Abraham, that Sara shoulde haue geuen chyldren sucke? for I haue borne him a sonne in his olde age.

8 The chylde grewe, and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isahac was weaned.

9 Sara saw also the sonne of Hagar the Egyptian, whiche she had borne vnto Abraham, to be a mocker.

10 Wherfore she sayd vnto Abraham: cast out this bond woman, & her sonne: for the sonne of this bonde woman, shal not be heyre with my sonne Isahac.

11 And this saying was very greeuous in Abrahams sight, because of his sonne.

12 And God sayde vnto Abraham, let it not be greeuous in thy sight, because of the lad and of thy bonde woman: In al that Sara hath said vnto thee, heare her voyce, for in Isahac shall thy seede be called.

13 Moreouer, of the sonne of the bonde woman wyll I make a nation, because he is thy seede.

14 And so Abraham rose vp early in the mornyng, and tooke bread, and a bottel of water, and gaue it vnto Hagar, puttyng it on her shoulder, and the lad also, and sent her away: who departing, wandered vp and downe in the wildernesse of Beer seba.

15 And the water was spent in the bottell, and she cast the lad vnder some one of the trees:

16 And went, and sate on the other syde a great way, as it were a bowe shote of: for she sayd, I wyll not see the death of the chylde. And she sitting downe on the other side, lyft vp her voyce & wept.